Stephanie Y. Mitchem
Associate Professor
Ph. D., Northwestern University, 1998
Womanist Theology and African American Spirituality
tel: (803) 777-3627, e-mail mitchesy@sc.edu
Stephanie Y. Mitchem (Ph. D., Northwestern University, 1998) has a commitment to liberatory educational practice. She teaches contemporary theology and women's studies, emphasizing the experiences and perspectives of black women.
Dr. Mitchem shares a joint appointment with the Women's Studies Program at USC, where she has an office at Flinn 205 (tel: 777-0408).
Mitchem is contributing editor of Crosscurrents, a print and on-line journal and a global network for people of faith and intelligence who are committed to connecting the wisdom of the heart and the life of the mind, that bring people together across lines of difference.
She is also co-editor of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, the publication of feminist scholarship in religion and a forum for discussion and dialogue among women and men of differing feminist perspectives..
She is author of African American Women Tapping Power and Spiritual Wellness, (Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2004), Introducing Womanist Theology (Orbis Books, 2002), and numerous essays. She is currently working on her next book, which will focus on African American folk healing.
Summer 2006, Mitchem spent time doing research in Brazil at the Instituto de Educaçäo Teológica da Bahia (ITEBA). (Travel Photo-Journal)
COURSES
Religion and Culture
African American Religious Experiences
Proseminar in Religion & Healing (Anthropology and Religion)
Religions in the African Diaspora
PUBLICATIONS:
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In Process
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African Americans and Theologies of Prosperity (Pilgrim Press).
Faith, Health, and Healing Among African Americans, co-edited with Emilie M.
Townes (Praeger).
Forthcoming
Book:
African American Folk Healing (New York University Press)
(PRECIS)
Chapters:
"African American Women's Embodied Spirituality and Cassandra" in Women and the
Gift edited by Morny Joy (Indiana University Press)
"Finding Questions and Answers in Womanist Theology and Ethics," in
conference proceedings edited by Rosemary Radford Ruether (Fortress
Press).
"Religious Healing as Pedagogical Performance," in volume on teaching
religious healing, edited by Linda Barnes and Inez Talamentez (Oxford
University Press).
Books
African American Women Tapping Power and Spiritual Wellness (Cleveland: Pilgrim
Press, 2004).
Introducing Womanist Theology, (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2002).
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GENERAL RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Contemporary religious thought, with emphasis on feminist and anthropological/ethnographic methodologies
- Women in the African Diaspora.
- Postcolonialism, class, and African American religious thought and experience
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